Research Design and Analysis

Welcome to SDS/MTH 290!

Please complete the course questionnaire

Who am I?

• Prof. Randi Garcia
• She/her pronouns
• My goals for this course
• Favorite animal: Hamsters!

Now it is your turn. But first, let's do a 2-minute free write

• On the back of the questionnaire
• For 2 minutes, write about:
  • Your goals for this course,
  • What you hope to learn, and
  • When in your week you plan to read/study for this course.

In groups of 3, introduce yourselves

• Name
• Pronouns
• Little on your goals
• Favorite animal

• Course website
• Syllabus
• Projects!!

• Can you assign experimental material to conditions?
• You've created those conditions
• If the material alredy comes in different “varieties”, then it's an observational study
  • People with different psychiatric illnesses
  • Different species of plants
• Sometimes one “study” will have both experimental and observational variables

Get into groups of ~8—Count off!

As you participate in the experiment at the link below, remember:

• what you saw
• what you did
• the order in which it happened.

Click here to participate!!

Or type this into a browser: bit.ly/2DM6b4a

In your groups:

• Take turns describing what you saw/did.
• Your objective, as a group, is to describe the FULL experimental design.

Discussion questions:

• What were all of the possibilities? How do you think that was determined?
• Which conditions were distributed across people, and which within people?
• What do you think are the possible research questions answered by this study?